Senior Software Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Experience : 8 - 12 Yrs

Location : Bengaluru

Designation : Lead Software Engineer

Key Skills and Experience :

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Extensive experience as a Lead Software Engineer, with the ability to oversee and guide large-scale, development-driven projects, capturing and refining requirements, and ensuring they align with business and technical goals.
• Trusted to lead and architect complex designs, facilitating input from multiple developers, and ensuring scalability, efficiency, and maintainability across systems.
• Expertise in Java and a deep understanding of back-end development, capable of leading and driving complex software solutions to successful completion.
• Mastery of Spring Boot and Spring, with the ability to architect, build, and scale enterprise-grade applications that integrate seamlessly with other systems and services.
• Advanced understanding of API development, including RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and OpenAPI/Swagger specifications, ensuring systems communicate efficiently while maintaining high security and performance standards.
• Extensive experience managing both relational databases (Postgres) and NoSQL databases (such as MongoDB or equivalents like CosmosDB/DynamoDB), with a focus on optimising data access, storage, and performance.
• Proficient in Git, with experience in leading version control strategies across teams, ensuring smooth collaboration, branching strategies, and code review processes.
• Proven experience implementing and improving CI/CD pipelines, leading automation efforts to ensure smooth, fast, and reliable delivery of software from development to production.
• Expertise in automated testing frameworks (e.g., Spock, TestContainers), performance testing, security testing, and static code analysis, ensuring the robustness, security, and scalability of the codebase.
• Able to simplify and break down complex projects, services, and processes, enabling teams to deliver faster while maintaining high standards of quality and scalability.
• Meticulous attention to detail, ensuring all solutions are robust, high-quality, and capable of scaling to meet business-critical demands.
• Creative problem-solving skills, able to approach challenges from multiple angles, quickly identifying the most effective solutions, even when faced with complex, ambiguous problems.
• Proven leadership in mentoring and coaching senior and junior engineers, ensuring that teams are continuously growing and adopting best practices to achieve high-performance development.
• Strong prioritisation and multitasking skills, thriving in an agile, fast-paced environment, with the ability to balance multiple projects, meet deadlines, and maintain high-quality output.
• Self-driven and proactive, with the ability to lead and collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams, including architecture, product management, and QA.
• Desirable: Strong understanding of financial reconciliation processes, with experience in building or managing systems to support critical business operations in financial domains.